"This is of no help." Alessio decided after a short moment, just as he was about to head back the way he had come, something caught his eye.
It rested in a box at the very last shelf, hidden by the other shelves overflowing with more attractive gems and treasures.
It was practically unnoticeable, so much that Alessio had almost missed it yet the moment he did a double take, every other gem was long forgotten.
It had no glow or shine to it, but none of that mattered when Alessio walked over to the shelf and stared down at the dragon scale.
Alessio had not seen many dragons or any at all until recently, but their fame and supremacy in all the lands beyond the sea was far spread even here in wolf territory where their reign was yet to taint.
So Alessio knew enough to recognize the large, rough and curved scale that was just as large as his palm but was one out of hundreds of scales that formed a dragon's armored cover.
